dish

plat, assiette

Récipient peu profond servant à contenir, cuire ou servir des aliments.

En anglais simple : A shallow container used to hold, cook, or serve food.

• Put the fruit in a dish.
• She broke a glass dish.
• These dishes are safe to use in the oven.

Synonymes : plate, bowl

Expressions courantes : serving dish, oven dish, shallow dish

plat

Préparation culinaire particulière servie au cours d’un repas.

En anglais simple : A particular kind of food prepared as part of a meal.

• This dish is delicious.
• She cooked a traditional rice dish.
• Which dishes on the menu are vegetarian?

Expressions courantes : main dish, vegetarian dish, traditional dish

vaisselle

Assiettes, tasses et autres ustensiles de table ou de cuisine à laver après un repas.

En anglais simple : The plates, cups, and other eating or cooking things that need washing after a meal.

• Please wash the dishes.
• Dirty dishes filled the sink.
• Who did the dishes last night?

Comment l'utiliser : do the dishes (I'll do the dishes after dinner.)

Synonymes : washing-up

Expressions courantes : wash the dishes, do the dishes, dirty dishes

plat, assiette

Quantité de nourriture contenue dans un plat ou une assiette.

En anglais simple : The amount of food held in one shallow container.

• He ate a dish of stew.
• We shared two dishes of noodles.
• She finished a whole dish of pudding.

Comment l'utiliser : a dish of something (We shared a dish of rice.)

Synonymes : dishful

Expressions courantes : dish of rice, dish of stew, dish of pudding

potiner, commérer

Parler de la vie privée de quelqu’un ou raconter des secrets intéressants à son sujet.

En anglais simple : To talk about someone's private life or share interesting secrets about them.

• We sat around and dished.
• She dished about the celebrity's wedding.
• Are you going to dish the dirt on your old boss?

Comment l'utiliser : dish about someone/something (They dished about their friends' love lives.); dish on someone/something (The actor dished on his famous co-stars.)

Synonymes : gossip

Expressions courantes : dish about someone, dish on someone, dish the dirt

creuser, rendre concave

Donner à un objet une forme dont le milieu se courbe vers l’intérieur.

En anglais simple : To shape something so that its middle curves inward.

• The worker dished the metal plate.
• You can dish a wheel by adjusting its spokes.
• The press dishes the sheet into a shallow curve.

Expressions courantes : dish a wheel, dish the metal, dish the plate